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January 26, 2025 by Dave Bonta

A sunrise in layers of orange and gray makes the absence of color below in the snow seem absolutely surreal. Three crows fly over the house. The furnace rumbles awake.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags American crow, clouds, snow, sunrise
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On This Day

  • August 24, 2025
    Overcast and quiet. A doe and two fawns melt into the woods when I come out. In the meadow, this morning’s bindweed trumpets are already vibrating with bumblebees.
  • August 24, 2024
    Clear and still, except for some noise from the quarry—the crusher digesting its breakfast of stone. A deer’s footsteps up in the woods. A scolding squirrel.
  • August 24, 2023
    Overcast and cool. A phoebe calls a few times from beyond the spring house and falls silent. As if in mockery, a pewee’s slower, more lilting response.
  • August 24, 2022
    First day of a dry high. Sunlight seeping down the trees. By the time it reaches the forest floor, the cicadas have started up.
  • August 24, 2021
    A stratum of sunlit leaves forming in the forest understory. A cicada wakes up. Under the house, something coughs.

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Header image: detail from Paper Garden by Clive Hicks-Jenkins (used by permission)

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